Thomas Chatterton (1752 - 1770)

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Thomas Chatterton was born in Bristol on November 20, 1752 and is generally regarded as the first Romantic poet in English. Throughout his early childhood Chatterton showed no signs of talent. He was regarded as little better than an idiot until he was about six and a half years old, because he would learn nothing, refused to play with other children, and spent most of his time brooding in silence. He was expelled from his first school as a dullard. It appears that he underwent a conside.. Continue..

Some of Thomas Chatterton Poems

A Hymn for Christmas Day

A New Song

An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri

Colin Instructed

Eclogues

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